Recommendations for Laptop and OS for EDA tools

[rajharvijay]

Dear friends,
I need recommendations from those persons who have great systems for EDA tools.
What processor??
What OS??
What Memory??
What else can be required???
I want you guys to suggest me the system configuration for laptop to run EDA softwares like, Cadence, ADS, Hspice....and all that essential softwares for circuit designers...
any suggestions....

 

[soway]

CPUuo 2 Core
Memory:based on your design,but at lease 1G.
OS:Suse 10 or RHEL4U4 or CentOS4U4(recommended)

 

[rajharvijay]

thank you.
anything else?? like graphics card?? or something else required??

what is CentOS4U4 ???

 

[amadis]

OS: ubuntu 6.06 or 6.10

EDA : cadence spectrup rf

MB: ASUS P5LD2 , CPU INTEL 630

RAM : DDR2 667 1G

VGA CARD ASUS 6600

WIN XP --> ADS

Added after 5 minutes:

thank you.
anything else?? like graphics card?? or something else required??

what is CentOS4U4 ???

OS: LINUX

https://www.centos.org/

 

[rajharvijay]

hey what is ubuntu??
is it any version of linux??

 

[gliss]

Internally, Cadence uses IBM T41 ThinkPad laptops with RHEL 3.0/4.0. So do we, so do a lot of companies. The are the best in my opinion.
SuSE and CentOS are fine too.

 

[rajharvijay]

which company?

 

[big porkus]

I have used succesfully gEDA suite , schematic , pcb etc, on:

- Acer ASPIRE 1710 Suse 8.2 , 9.1 , 9.2 , 9.3 , 10.1
- HP NX9005 RHEL 4, Fedora Core 6
- ACER travelmate 4600 SUSE 10.3
- ACER travelmate TM351 SUSE 9.3 , RHEL 4
- FujitsuSiemes Amilo(now i forgot the number) P3 1G 256M Ram , Suse 9.3

Bye ;-)
BIG

 

[ok_box]

What processor?? Intel Core 2 Duo
What OS?? RedHat Enterprise AS 3.0
What Memory?? 2 GB
What else can be required??? 10 GB (Free on H.D.D.) & Ethernet Card

 

[hbsustc]

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is a well-suited version to run EDA tools especially for the laptops, Cadence IC5141 (5033), ADS2008, Modelsim, Cosmos work well on it.

 

[sunnySan]

It seems that some of you run ADS on ubuntu,
is it running with Wine ?
is it stable?

Thanks
SunnySan

 

[khouly]

i think he is runung ADS linux version , not the wine

khouly

 

[Clunixchit]

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS is a well-suited version to run EDA tools especially for the laptops, Cadence IC5141 (5033), ADS2008, Modelsim, Cosmos work well on it.

Ill discourage you from using Ubuntu.
I've being called several times to fix weird issues of EDA on Ubuntu with regards to multi-libs on different architectures.
Some even took a week to get ic5033 back on track.
I would recommend you RHEL, or its clone CentOS, at least you'll have time to sleep and a smile on your face.

I've been working with my issues closely with RHEL and CentOS developers. They helped me a lot via the Fedora community and the existing bugs are now fixed upstream.